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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Setting up Vbox

VM Virtual box allows you to have one or more OS running at the same time. Here, the Virtual Box is setup for Fedora so that it runs in Windows XP. Having a Linux based system is essential especially Fedora as it consist of electronic spin, which has many Electronic Design Aid (EDA) tools to be utilized. Furthermore, Linux and the software that comes with it is open source.

Steps in setting up VBox

Install VM VBox software just like any other software.

Open Oracle VM VirtualBox. You should see the figure below:

Figure 1: Interface to Vbox

Click on New. Figure 2 will pop out.

Figure 2: New Virtual Machine Wizard

Click Next. Choose the VM Name and OS type to be loaded to the VM VBox.

Figure 3 VM Name and OS

Allocate about 768MB of RAM memory to load the fedora. It should be more than sufficient. Click Next.

Figure 4: RAM memory allocation

Click Add. A dialog should appear. Navigate to the .vdi image file and click OK to complete.

Figure 5: Media manager

Click Select.

Figure 6: Select the appropriate image file

If you have the correct image file in the Use existing hard disk list, click Next.

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